RADEON 9800 corruption Created 18 years ago2005-09-05 14:53:56 UTC by Seventh-Monkey

Right, I've had problems with CS:S in the past (haven't played it for a while ? I'm not saying that they've stopped) and have also recently started having similar problems in BF2. The issues have previously just been texture corruption, really, often ofsetting the textures, covering them in small regular squares of black, or of other parts of the texture, or having them shift around as they filter.

In the last couple of days, however, I've found BF2 turn into this monstrosity. Buildings have turned into bizarre Escher-esque contrivances comprising of dozens of flat-color polygons twisting into each other.

Here are screenshots of the similar-but-milder issues in CS:S.

Does this look like a hardware fault, overheating, or what? I've only ever seen people say "buggered hardware" with screenies like the mad BF2 one :(.

Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, ASUS A7V600-X, 1024MiB DDR2700, Sapphire RADEON 9800 Pro 128MiB, stock speeds.

PS: I also experienced graphical corruption, blurring, etc., in Windows at one point.

For bf2, only use the supplied drives that came on the dvd. Others wont work or will crash the game.

I have no cleu what could be causing in cs:s.

do you have all the latest drivers from the hardware websites and a up to date version of DirectX?

to me it looks like the uv/normal maps are showing in the first pic, and that something is wrong with your videocard in the second, i had similar experiences in farcry. I think it might just be a driver issue/ BF2 version issue. so id say look into updates to them

Looks to me like artifacting. Feel the heatsink on your 9800's core, and feel the ram with your fingertip. Is it very hot? Might I recommend you invest in some OCZ Copper BGA Ramsinks and some Arctic Silver Adhesive (to glue them on). When I first got my 9800XT I was using stock cooling and got artifacting in some games. Or alternatively you could invest in an Arctic Silencer. You will be able to get some overclocking out of it, and keep it very quiet (the fan is silent). Just make sure you buy the correct revision. There is about 10 different ATi Arctic Silencers out there for different cards. I was getting a similar color phenomenon like you were getting in BF2, but in HLDM once. That was a driver issue. As for the polygon problem, that is a form of artifacting. You might notice onscreen models appearing in random places untextured or golden colored. I used to get that in Far Cry when I was overheating. The CSS issue looks like RAM artifacting, or it could be GPU.

The point is, it's the card's way of saying "you fucking idiot I'm 10000C you stupid cunting moron put some better cooling on me you shithead".

BTW: Seventh and M_Gargantua, Kazoo has activated your accounts on HWA.

Yes, that definately sounds like an over-heating problem. I've seen similar cases of it, which has almost always been linked to inadequate cooling.

Golden yep.

It's got a Zalman VF700 on it, with Zalman-provided thermal compound.It's got a very thin layer of paste on the die and I re-fitted the heatsink last night. The RAM heatsinks get very slightly warm to the touch, and the heatsink has been noticably warmer-than-usual in the past, but not hot.

I'll have to try again having re-fitted it.

How hot is hot for a R3XX?

With stock cooling, after 2 hours of Far Cry, my R360 would reach 96C.

Seventh my friend has this exact same problem and he says it is due to overheating and it happens very often which is why his getting a new computer.
He bought new fans and even opened up the tower case to let some heat out but the sad thing is it still has those annoying colour patches and while he was playing Splinter Cell, those weird spider type spikes popped out of the player and it blocked his view.
It was overheating and I believe yours is the same.

So the same thing's still happening for him with tons of fans, etc.? Sounds pretty hopeless.

I'm gunna try re-down-grading to some older drivers and see what happens. I'm a little loathe to believe it's overheating; the motherboard temp. is 32?C, the ambient is 22?C, and the CPU's 38?C. If I don't get anywhere, I may try flashing the core to an XT, 'cos m0p reckons the core has a temperature sensor on.

Stop whining you turd. more colors = better

Er... yeah :P.

Downgrading my drivers seems to have reduced the issues to texture corruption alone. Hmm.